Good-humor makes all things tolerable

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

What you expect, it will find the way to appear.

People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

I hope that's what the taxpayers of Great Britain expect, is expect us to, when we make investments in countries, that they work. And they don't work if a nation doesn't invest in its people.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

Such joy ambition finds.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

I don't need proof, I have faith.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.